Yeah I mean we need everyone on board the Chemical Weapons Convention if possible... hopefully non-member states or entities still struggling with the moral case for membership such as North Korea and Israel will follow Syria's lead.

Probably is, but BO will get some credit for pushing it to this resolution... had he not pursued it, Assad may have already used them again. So yes, Putin is the bigger player after all he has >>> pull with Syria than we do.... but even he wouldn't be asking Assad to do this had the US not stepped up and applied pressure. And BO gets significant credit because no other nations stepped in with him... it's been mainly his "game" since the UK bowed out.

I want to see how Fox is going to spin this if it goes through. (fingers crossed)

Oh...so now it was his plan all along to push this issue (bombing) until they cave?

yeah, that's a good one! Come on, seriously? Obama was going to go through with this strike (and who knows, just still might do it) and was absolutely lucky that Putin has his head on straight in this matter.

"Syria is handing over its chemical weapons under international supervision because of Russia," Assad said in the interview. "The US threats did not influence the decision," he added. Syria will now give the United Nations the documents required for the procedure, Assad added.

"If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he’s not the problem."

Oh...so now it was his plan all along to push this issue (bombing) until they cave?yeah, that's a good one! Come on, seriously?

Without firing a single bullet, dropping a single bomb, or not a single death, Obama's strategy forced Putin to do a complete reversal of his hardline stance on the UN and Syrian, have Syria do a complete reversal from denial that they even had chemical weapons to agreeing they'd reveal and destroy them and sign onto the international ban …. and pretty much turn the GOP into diplomacy-embracing peaceniks as well as obliterating the Bush Doctrine from all future presidents.

Yes, seriously.

And President Obama obviously doesn't give a f*ck that you, the opinion polls, and the media think of his show of military force to get diplomacy, that all of this just happened all of the sudden with no planning and you want to praise Putin as a diplomatic genius. You'd think the media might be concerned about the large number of conservative pundits and Congressional Republicans who are now saying that the US military is weak, ineffective, and unable to accomplish what defense dept. leaders say they are capable of. That's kinda bad stuff to be telling our enemies out around the world.

Because they recognised that possession served as a deterrent against entities posing a similar threat to Syria such as Israel which refused to ratify the Convention. Now that Russia has taken the lead it's up to the US and Israel to do the right thing and follow Syria's example.

yes BO never dreamed Russia would cooperate, but BO DID plan a retaliation. However in a turn of events, Russia figured it best to get Syrian chemical weapons destroyed... NOT because of us or Syria itself, but they have their own civil unrest to deal with in places like Chechnya, and they don't want to face rogue elements using chemical weapons either... I think they're doing it for their OWN interests.... Putin sure isn't doing it as a favor to us.

BUT regardless here we are, planned or not, and it would NOT have happened if BO had turned a blind eye.. like most the rest of the world. Assad would keep them and probably would have already used them again by now...

also many on the right are saying verify, verify, verify, ... and are skeptical... well verification is easy ! IF he has them and uses them, the whole world will know. It's not like something you can hide. Other than that it really doesn't matter if he has none, 1 rocket or 50. The object is for them NOT to be used. BUT regardless, I'm sure they'll have UN inspectors come in to check... but then that gets to be a game like with Saddam...how do you prove you DON'T have something? I guess the clue would be if he limits access to any where the inspectors want to go.

Regardless if Assad turns them over to anyone, Russia, UN, any other international group for destruction... this situation is OVER... Putin and BO get the credit.THIS is Obama's Cuban Missile Crisis. in a way.. and if this WMD turnover happens- he prevails, aka Jack Kennedy !!

Because they recognised that possession served as a deterrent against entities posing a similar threat to Syria such as Israel which refused to ratify the Convention. Now that Russia has taken the lead it's up to the US and Israel to do the right thing and follow Syria's example.

km

You obviously don't know sarcasm when you hear it. Which I find incredible to believe....lol.

"If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he’s not the problem."

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